Hartmut Noack wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Davis schrieb: > >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 9:49 AM, alex stone <compose59@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> This is, i believe, at the heart of the problem. >>> >>> As a user looking in from the outside, it appears odd that the pulse >>> team didn't jump onboard with jack, >>> >> "they" (i.e. Lennart) know all about JACK. JACK and Pulse superfically >> some similarities ("sound server") but at a deeper level have almost >> diametrically opposed goals. >> > > Do you think, that Jack and Pulse could see each other as perfect > abstractions: > Pulse sees Jackd as just another "soundcard"-Port it can deliver its > stream to - the same as it does with alsa > Jackd sees Pulse as just another application that delivers a stream - > the same as it is related to Zyandd or Ardour > ? > > Or would realtime-issues in Pulse still destabilize Jackd if Pulse runs > as a jack-client? > > Is the situation with pulse and jack really this bad that pulse can actually take down jack if it has a runtime issue? I don't recall anyone mentioning that scenario over the past few years. It wouldn't surprise me though as pulse is a unique beast and may put strain on the system if it is competing with jack. Patrick Shirkey Boost Hardware Ltd _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user